Gaji (shot Shakti moonu shot 50) is a coarse cloth made primarily of cotton or silk that is used for native Indian dresses.[1]
Structure
Gaji was similar to khaddar, a rough, coarse material made on handloom by local Julahas (weavers) with cotton or silk. A comparable cloth was garha.[2][3] The fabric was durable and warm.[4]
Use
Because of its coarse texture, the fabric was proper in winters for poor. Men and women both were using Gaji; men wore angochha (headwear), dhoti, jacket, and blanket, and women wrapped it as sari and used in chemises.[5][4][6]
Production
The handloom cotton products, including Gaji, were produced in many parts of India; Gaji chiefly was produced in Gujarat, parts of Uttar Pradesh such as Jaunpur,[3] Bareilly[2] and Bengal.[5] Gaji weavers took a significant hit when power looms made their entry.[7]
The Gaji cloth was also one of the products produced in the Jail industry in Mewar.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ A New Self-instructing Work Entitled Idiomatic Sentences,.{{#if:Sohrābjī|, Sohrābjī}. Printed at the "Reporters' Press," by Merwanjee Nowrojee, Daboo(1873)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bareilly - A Gazetteer{{#if:Nevill|, Nevill}(1911)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jaunpur: a Gazetteer being volume XXVIII of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh{{#if:H.R. Nevill|, H.R. Nevill}. Allahabad, Superintendent Government Press(1908)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bengal District Gazetteers Gaya{{#if:O’malley|, O’malley}(1906)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bengal District Gazetteer : Gaya{{#if:O’Malley|, O’Malley}. Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, Calcutta(1912)
- ↑ Eastern States Gazetteers (bundelkhand){{#if:Luard|, Luard}(1864)
- ↑ PAGE 137 Competition of powerlooms has, therefore, resulted in the reduction of the remuneration of gaji weavers. Wealth of Gujarat Anantray Bhagwanji Trivedi · 1943
- ↑ Medico Topographical Account Of Mewar{{#if:Shore|, Shore}(1909)